Adam Burton

Actor

Birmingham, England, UK

Biography

Adam works predominantly as an actor and voice artist, having performed on-stage for National Theatre, The Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company; more recently he has accrued more film-based roles, such as in fellow The Burnt City alumni Luke Murphy’s critically-acclaimed production Volcano, as well as the most recent fourth series of True Detective.

Filmography

8.3

True Detective

Lucas Merens

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

7.6

FBI: International

Dr. Lakatos

Follows the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team headquartered in Budapest as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.

7.0

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Dale the Shop Teacher

A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

6.6

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Goat

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

6.3

Rebecca

Manderley Ball Guest

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

1.0

National Theatre Live: Everyman

Goods / Fellowship/Senses & Wits (Passion)

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, it now explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos.

3.0

Other Side of the Game

Toby Morris

Tony Cole knows that for the last ten years he's been caught in a downward spiral. Selling drugs was never a crime, but it was never meant to be his career. Now he's frustrated with his mundane daily routine and can no longer live with the constant threat of getting caught. But Tony doesn't realise that his middle class customers will never accept him as anything but a drug dealer and that the criminal underworld will brutally hold onto its own. His plans for a legitimate future go fatally wrong, framing him for both theft and murder. Manipulated by those he trusts and deserted by those he loves, Tony has only twelve hours to save his life. His only choice is to sink deeper into a sordid world in a desperate attempt to claw his way back out.

N/A

Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask

Self

Discover the story of Punchdrunk, the pioneering and hugely secretive theatre company whose productions have reinvented an art form and changed the rules of theatre.

6.8

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

Thomas Randolph

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.

N/A

Second Sound

Rog

A psychological drama exploring Second Sound, an aural phenomena where people hear sounds from alternate realities where their biggest regrets no longer exist.

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